Is this week count even right? If its not, oh well! Anyways, I have
successfully survuved my first week in the suburbs of Helsinki! I came
down on Tuesday morning and arrived in Pasila after my 50 minute train
ride from Lahti. My companions name is Elder Johnson from Arizona and he
is one transfer ahead of me while he has got a complete grip on the
language, so thats good that he's got it! He's also our district leader.
We got right to work teaching a lesson a few hours after I got in which
is always a great start! ANd we have taught a few more since then. Our
apartment actually isnt even in our area, its in the sisters, and it
takes us 15ish minutes ot get to our area by train so it was super
inconvenient and uneffective. But that has all changed as yesterday we
packed our apartment adn moved to a nother apartment in our area now!
Last night was our first night in it.
Alright now I'll just skip
right to the good stuff. Saturday was a weird day. We were in the
downtown Helsinki for a lesson at the church. When we were walking back
to the tram stop with our investigator some drunks in a bar on the side
of the road stopped us and wanted to know if we are selling tickets to
heaven. My comp. responded with no, but we have this book. The lady
looked at it and said I don't want to read it, it's too thick! She said I
just want to go to heaven, I'm a good person, I wake up every morning, I
get ready for the day, I clean the dishes, I'm a good wife, I'm a good
person, what more do I need to do to go to heaven. By this time our
investigator is like what the heck, and our tram had arrived so as much
as I would have loved to teach the whole bar about baptism, we had to
leave and catch the tram. But they have our card and when they come to,
hopefully they will call us.
Story #2 happens 5 minutes
later, when we get off the tram and start to walk into the train station
to catch our train back home. A drunk lady grabs my companion and is
vehemently yelling bless me bless me! And we are like alright we'll say a
prayer for you and she is like no bless me and then she starts to bow
down like she wants us to put our hands on her head and we are like
uhhh.. There are crowds of just drunks all around watching us and if I
had payed more attention to them probably mocking us, but we go on and
we say a prayer for her and she keeps talking to us during the prayer
telling us who to pray for and then she grabs this random guy and is
like bless him and his mom too. And was like, hey arent you from the
Church of Jesus Christ, and we are like yep, and he goes cool. So we
walk away while the crazy lady is distracted, meanwhile our investigator
who was with us has now left. And story #3 happens 15 seconds later
when these two guys come up and start dishing anti on us and we are like
we dont have time for this, if you want to bash come to church tomorrow
and we can talk after. They didn't come...
Anyways it was a crazy few minutes and all of this followed a super awesome first lesson!
Anyways, I love you all! Have a good week!
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| Some man at the train station preaching from his wheelchair. |
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